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surveiller: Conjugation

The surveiller conjugation tables below show how to form the French verb surveiller according to tense and person. To listen to the pronunciation of a given tense of surveiller, click on the loudspeaker icon at the bottom of the table. See the notes on the conjugation of surveiller at the end of this page.

Present	Perfect
je surveille tu surveilles il/elle surveille nous surveillons vous surveillez ils/elles surveillent Pronounce these verb forms	j' ai surveillé tu as surveillé il/elle a surveillé nous avons surveillé vous avez surveillé ils/elles ont surveillé Pronounce these verb forms
Imperfect	Pluperfect
je surveillais tu surveillais il/elle surveillait nous surveillions vous surveilliez ils/elles surveillaient Pronounce these verb forms	j' avais surveillé tu avais surveillé il/elle avait surveillé nous avions surveillé vous aviez surveillé ils/elles avaient surveillé Pronounce these verb forms
Future	Future-perfect
je surveillerai tu surveilleras il/elle surveillera nous surveillerons vous surveillerez ils/elles surveilleront Pronounce these verb forms	j' aurai surveillé tu auras surveillé il/elle aura surveillé nous aurons surveillé vous aurez surveillé ils/elles auront surveillé Pronounce these verb forms
Conditional	Conditional perfect
je surveillerais tu surveillerais il/elle surveillerait nous surveillerions vous surveilleriez ils/elles surveilleraient Pronounce these verb forms	j' aurais surveillé tu aurais surveillé il/elle aurait surveillé nous aurions surveillé vous auriez surveillé ils/elles auraient surveillé Pronounce these verb forms
Present subjunctive	Perfect subjunctive
je surveille tu surveilles il/elle surveille nous surveillions vous surveilliez ils/elles surveillent Pronounce these verb forms	j' aie surveillé tu aies surveillé il/elle ait surveillé nous ayons surveillé vous ayez surveillé ils/elles aient surveillé Pronounce these verb forms
Past historic	Past anterior
je surveillai tu surveillas il/elle surveilla nous surveillâmes vous surveillâtes ils/elles surveillèrent Pronounce these verb forms	j' eus surveillé tu eus surveillé il/elle eut surveillé nous eûmes surveillé vous eûtes surveillé ils/elles eurent surveillé Pronounce these verb forms

This verb follows the so-called regular -er verb pattern, the pattern followed by vast majority of verbs of the language, and by practically all new verbs entering the language.

The regular -er pattern has the following defining features:

• No characteristic consonant (contrast, for example, with verbs following the finir or dormir patterns, which have a characteristic -ss- and -m- in all forms but the present tense singular);
• No vowel change in the stem, other than where necessary to respect general patterns of French phonology (e.g. see préférer)²;
• Past participle in -é¹.

1. Outside the regular -er paradigm, only aller, être and naître have past participles ending in -é.
2. Many other verb patterns, except verbs of the finir type plus a few other patterns, have an irregular vowel change, e.g. boire > je bois vs nous buvons. See the grammar section on irregular verb patterns in French for a list of the different vowel changes.